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Events of daily living classification on an ambient assisted living environment

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Resumo:Population ageing is a global demographic challenge and countries all around the world are facing significant pressure on their health and social care systems in order to mitigate the effects of it. The emerging social aspect introduced some crucial challenges to society and greater demands on the actual health care sector, which led to the emergence and increased integration of agefriendly innovative welfare technological-based care services for safe and independent ageing, including the assisted living technologies based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm and Pervasive HealthCare. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems intend to provide caregivers with a detailed overview of their Events of Daily Living (EDL), which constitutes a clinical criteria to evaluate activity limitations. This dissertation addresses these challenges and contributes to the Ambient Assisted Living research, by means of a holistic solution composed of a beyond the state-of-the-art AAL technologies, representing a novel approach to assist in the investigation and on the modeling of a subset of Events of Daily Living (EDL), for sustaining independent living and a continual naturalistic assessment of health. The investigation was focused on 1) developing a multisensorial pervasive Research Data Acquistion (RDA) Platform with embedded Ambient Intelligence (AmI), 2) COTS to verify their validity and reliability for healthcare applications. The proposed solution has been thoroughly evaluated in the Ambient Assisted Living Laboratory that showed its effectiveness classifying EDL through the application of the AAL paradigm in the real world.
Autores principais:Pontes, Pedro António Sousa
Assunto:Ambient assisted living Ambient intelligence Events of daily living Pervasive healthcare
Ano:2020
País:Portugal
Tipo de documento:dissertação de mestrado
Tipo de acesso:acesso aberto
Instituição associada:Universidade do Minho
Idioma:inglês
Origem:RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
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Resumo:Population ageing is a global demographic challenge and countries all around the world are facing significant pressure on their health and social care systems in order to mitigate the effects of it. The emerging social aspect introduced some crucial challenges to society and greater demands on the actual health care sector, which led to the emergence and increased integration of agefriendly innovative welfare technological-based care services for safe and independent ageing, including the assisted living technologies based on Ambient Intelligence (AmI) paradigm and Pervasive HealthCare. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems intend to provide caregivers with a detailed overview of their Events of Daily Living (EDL), which constitutes a clinical criteria to evaluate activity limitations. This dissertation addresses these challenges and contributes to the Ambient Assisted Living research, by means of a holistic solution composed of a beyond the state-of-the-art AAL technologies, representing a novel approach to assist in the investigation and on the modeling of a subset of Events of Daily Living (EDL), for sustaining independent living and a continual naturalistic assessment of health. The investigation was focused on 1) developing a multisensorial pervasive Research Data Acquistion (RDA) Platform with embedded Ambient Intelligence (AmI), 2) COTS to verify their validity and reliability for healthcare applications. The proposed solution has been thoroughly evaluated in the Ambient Assisted Living Laboratory that showed its effectiveness classifying EDL through the application of the AAL paradigm in the real world.